Printers&#39; inks and coloring-matters and procedure whereby the same are producible.



, enable us to attain our ington, in the District of invented certain new and useful Improve ments in Printers Inks and Coloring-Matters and a Procedure Whereby the Same are kn TED STATES PATENT onFIoiE.

LOUIS E. BARTON, OF-NIAGARA"FALLS, NEW .YORK, AND HENRY A. GARDNER, OF

WASHINGTON, DISTRICT PRINTERS INKS AND GOLOLING-MATTERS'AND PROCEDURE WHEREBY THE SAME ARE.

OF COLUMBIA, ASSIGNORS TO THE TITANIUM ALLOY MAN UFACTURIN G COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N.

Y., A CORPORATION OF. MAINE.

PRODUCIBIJE.

Be it known that we, LoUis,E. BARTON and HENRY A. GARDNER, both citizens of 'the United States,"and' residents, respec' tively, of Niagara Falls, in the county of Niagara and State of New York, and VVash- Producible, of specification.

The invention relates to those composiwhich the following is a tions. including inks and printers colors,- so called, which-are,

by reason of their peculiar consistency, printable, i. ,e. applicable to types and therefrom transferable by printing to another surface, and its objects comprise prov sion of expedients whereby such compositions are producible more efliciently and economically and of better qualities than heretofore, including opacity, du-- 'rability, workability,

intensity, etc.

Our invention is based upon our discovery that titanic oxid, (-TiO )',possesses peculiar qualities and characteristics, which said objects through incorporations thereof, in suitable condition, and substantial quantity, with the other usual ingredients of said printable compo sitions, including inks and colors. For example, that the exceptionally refractorycharacter of that oxid imparts durability to the coloration of the print its high refractive index exceptionally increasesits opacity; its fineness and smoothness, when suitably'prepared, facilitate its incorporation with the other constituents of the'printers ink or color compositions and correspondingly improves the appearance of the products printed therefrom; and its unique chemical properties and afiinities insure an exceptionally perfect distribution, or homogeneity, in the organic and other constituents of the said printable compositions, colors, inks, etc, containing it.

The following example will illustrate how our invention is preferably practised and novel titaniferous inks, or other printers colors, obtained.

W p ace n a y s itab e vat a q il Specification ofLetters Patent.

Columbia, have ment Patented Nov. 5, 1918.

Application filed November 28, 1917, Serial No. 204,381.

. tity, such as indicated, of an organic colormg matter, precipitable by barium chlorid, for example ponceau 3R. This we dissolve in Water. We then add dry sodium sulfate and stlr the mass until solution is complete. In another vat, preferably arranged below the first, we place a quantity, such as indicated b the product desired, of titanic oxid TiO preferably in the form of what .is

own as a composite titanic oxid, pigconsisting. approximately of twenty parts TiO and eighty parts GaSO To this we-add sufiicie'nt barium chlorid to precipitate, during the next step, the organic coloring matter referred to. We then slowly run the said contents ofthe upper into the lower vat, and in the latter agitate the charge and maintain it at the temperature indicated for the most complete reaction and precipitation. The resulting preci 'itate of organic matter in conjunction wit the titanic oxid, the white calcium sulfate base, and also the barium sulfate that has been precipitated, will, in this instance, be a lake, available as a pigment, of a beautiful red color, the hue and tone of which, as well as certain of its physical characteristics, may be controlled, as will be apparent to those skilled in the art, by correspondingly varying the proportions of the ingredients, the strength of the solution, the temperature, the rapidity of the precipitation, etc. We then wash and dry our resulting lake, or pigment, precipitate, and incorporate it at any preferred stage and in any preferred Inanneryor extent, with other usual constituents of "the printable inks, or colors, 1ncluding a suitable vehicle, such as linseed, or IOSlIl, oil, thu producing our novel t1 taniferous products of the class descrlbed.

B. As an alternative, though unpreferred, method of incorporating the titanic mud in the printers inks, or colors, instead of, as above, precipitating, or fixing, the organlc coloring matter upon the white titanic oxid, or the composite titanic oxid pigment as a base, we precipitate the organic color ng matter in pure form and subsequently grind the product with the desired amount of the titanic oxid, or of the composite titanic oxid pigment and then, s. bef re, inco p the resulting mixture with the constituents of the printers ink or colors, or we mix, or grind, together a quantity of an'inorganic pigment, or color, with a titanic oxid pigment and then, as before, incorporate the resulting mixture with the constituents of form as are obtainable by aid of such proas are described in Letters Patent granted to Auguste J. Rossi and Louis E. Barton, Nos. 1,106,406, 1,106,407, 1,106,408, 1,106,409, 1,106,410, dated August 11, 1914, No. 1,166,547, dated January 4, 1916, No. 1,171,542, dated February 15, 1916, and Nos. 1,196,029, 1,196,030, 1,196,031, dated August 29, 1916; and also to Louis E. Barton No. 1,189,229, dated July 4, 1916, No. 1,201,541, dated October 16, 1917, and Nos. 1,206,796, 1,206,797, 1,206,798, dated December 5,1916.

Moreover, as indicated in the example above given, We also find it peculiarly advantageous, or preferable, to use for our said purposes What are known as composite titanic oxid pigments, in which the titanic oxid is in the form of very minute particles in coalesced combination with, and adherent to, particles, or carriers of some other substance, usually a sulfate, and preferably calcium sulfate, such, for example, as produced by precipitation of the said oXid upon such a substance while suspended in an acid solution,preferably a sulfuric acid solution,

cedures as per the procedures described in Letters Patent granted to Louis E. Barton, No.

1,155,462, dated October 5, 1915, 1,205,144,

dated November 21, 1916, or NO.'1,24:0,4:05, dated September 18, 1917. I

Having now described our invention, what 2. A printing composition of matter'containing a pigment, coloring matter, titanic oxid, and an oleoginous vehicle.

3. A printing composition of matter containing a pigment, organic coloring matter, and titanic oxid.

4. Ink containing titanic oxid.

5. A printing composition of matter containing coloring matter and titanic oXid in the form of minute particles coalesced with and adherent to particles of a carrier ma terial.

6. A printing composition of matter containing a pigment, organic coloring matter, and titanic oxid coalesced with another substance.

7. Ink containing titanic oXid in the form of minute particles coalesced with and adherent to particles of a carrier material.

8. The method of improving printable compositions of matter, 2'. e. printers inks and colors, which consists in incorporating therewith titanic oxid.

9. The method of improving printable compositions of matter, 2'. e. printers inks and colors, which consists in incorporating therewith titanic oxid coalesced with sulfate particles.

LOUIS E. BARTON. HENRY A. GARDNER.

lVitnesses as to Louis E. Barton: EURITH GooLl), MATTHEW Cowman HAYES. Witnesses as to Henry A. Gardner:

J. E. JIRDINSTON, V. P. VANCE. 

